The Iranian government has labeled as “psychological warfare” the allegations from the United States about alleged plans to assassinate the president of the North American country, Donald Trump, amid the rise in tensions and exchanges of attacks in recent days, despite the ceasefire agreement reached in April and the memorandum of understanding signed in June.
“There is no doubt that there are parties that want to exploit anything for their own benefit,” said the spokesperson of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, at a press conference from Tehran, who criticized the United States and Israel for “assassinating Iranian leaders and citizens and now playing the victims.”
“This is part of psychological warfare that will not fool anyone,” he stated, before insisting that “the game being played by the rival parties must be taken into account,” as reported by the Iranian news agency Tasnim, following Trump’s claims about a possible Iranian plan to assassinate him.
The White House occupant stated on Saturday that there are a thousand missiles ready to be launched against Iran if he is assassinated.
“A thousand missiles are ready and prepared to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran, and thousands more will be launched immediately if the Iranian government fulfills its threat, pronounced in many corners of the world, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the current president of the United States, in this case, me!!,” he said on social media.
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Previously, Trump had indicated during the NATO summit in Turkey that Iran “wants to eliminate the leader of the United States.”
“I am on some list. I saw that I am on every single one of their lists. So far, it seems I have been somewhat lucky, but that may not last long. They are evil and sick people, so we have to end that cancer,” he said.
Also, in recent days, reports have been published in U.S. media pointing out that Israel had shared with Washington intelligence information about a “specific” plan allegedly devised by Iranian authorities to kill Trump, amid calls to avenge the assassination of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khamenei, assassinated on February 28 in the early stages of the surprise offensive launched by the United States and Israel against the Asian country, was buried on Friday in the city of Mashhad (northeast), after nearly a week of funeral events in Iran and Iraq in memory of the supreme leader, who had held the position since 1989.
